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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Photo: Wildlife Park Official Arrested in Gorilla Killings


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Officials survey four mountain gorillas that were illegally killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park during the week of July 26, 2007.

Congolese authorities recently arrested a senior Virunga park official for his alleged involvement in the execution-style killings, a move that conservationists have praised as a crucial step toward saving the rare primates.

Photograph by REUTERS/Ho New